HTML commands

Can anybody tell me how can you run windows files from an html file. I might add i dont know how to do html so an eg might help me.

Another ques.
i was seeing a source of a webpage and it there were these commands.

window.close();
parent.close();
window.parent.close();

can you tell me the difference between the three as they all try to close the webpage??

any help would be appreciated..

Hey,

If i understand you correctly you are talking about HTML not c++?

If you were then i dont think you can run them automatically from a html page for security reasons. Though i think you can make an ancoured link to open a file located on the clients machine.

Somthing like this:

PHP Code:

<!-- Opens Drive C: --!>
<a href="file://c:\">Open Your C: Drive!!!</a>

<!-- Opens File On C: Not tested this but the above works --!>
<a href="file://c:\simplest_lang_ever.exe">Opens .exe file</a> 


Oops just rembered for complete security stuff the above wont work, say if you sent someone a trojan then made a page to open it and get it running, m$ just cant do that lol.

So you cant run files but you can open folders for listings.


PART 2:

window.close();
parent.close();
window.parent.close();

Hmmm that to me looks largly like javascript, infact yes it is!!!! lol.

They all do the same thing i think, been a long time since i last looked over my java books though ,

Parent.close will simply close the main parent window, say you run that from a child window, if that makes sense with html, it will close its parent.

window.close will close the current window.

window.parent.close() i aint to sure to be honest but i dont think you would need to use it....



Hope That Helps a bit...

TNT

thanks TNT